The commons is the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society, including natural materials such as air, water, and a habitable earth. These resources are held in common, not owned privately. Commons can also be understood as natural resources that groups of people manage for individual and collective benefit. Characteristically, this involves a variety of informal norms and values employed for a governance mechanism.
Commons can be also defined as a social practice of governing a resource not by state or market but by a community of users that self-governs the resource through institutions that it creates.
Boris Johnson has suffered a spectacular blow to his Brexit plans after MPs voted down a bid to ram his deal through the Commons before Halloween. Independent - Published
Boris Johnson has been forced to put his plans to leave the EU on October 31 on ice after suffering another humiliating Commons defeat. MPs voted by 322 to 308 to reject his plan to ram legislation..
Credit: PA - Press Association STUDIO Duration: 01:28Published
Boris Johnson has been forced to put his plans to leave the EU on October 31 on ice after suffering another humiliating Commons defeat. MPs voted by 322 to 308 to reject his plan to ram legislation..
Credit: PA - Press Association STUDIO Duration: 00:40Published
Former Conservative MP Heidi Allen has joined the Liberal Democrats, the party has said. The South Cambridgeshire MP, who has been sitting as an independent since quitting the Change UK group in June,..
Credit: PA - Press Association STUDIO Duration: 00:43Published
Speaker John Bercow has said the culture in the Commons on Wednesday was "toxic", adding it was "worse than any I have known in my 22 years in the House". Responding to the tumoltous scenes in the..
Credit: PA - Press Association STUDIO Duration: 01:25Published
Boris Johnson has threatened to pull his Brexit deal and force a general election if MPs delay the departure date for leaving the EU until January. Independent - Published
Attorney General Geoffrey Cox has been ordered to apologise to the Commons for giving "wrong information" about the rent he receives from his London home. Independent - Published
Theresa May thought to be planning valedictory appearance at prime minister's questions in late July – delaying her replacement's arrival Independent - Published
![PM to pause Brexit Bill until extension decision is reached [Video]](https://video.newsserve.net/300/v/20191022/1910221936-PM-to-pause-Brexit-Bill-until-extension-decision.jpg)
![Government’s bid to fast-track Withdrawal Agreement defeated [Video]](https://video.newsserve.net/300/v/20191022/1910221913-Government-bid-to-fast-track-Withdrawal-Agreement.jpg)
![Ex-Tory Heidi Allen joins Liberal Democrats [Video]](https://video.newsserve.net/300/v/20191007/1910072125-Ex-Tory-Heidi-Allen-joins-Liberal-Democrats.jpg)
![Speaker John Bercow brands Commons culture as 'toxic' [Video]](https://video.newsserve.net/300/v/20190926/1909261016-Speaker-John-Bercow-brands-Commons-culture-as-toxic.jpg)
Send us your feedback | LIKE us on Facebook FOLLOW us on Twitter • FOLLOW us on Pinterest